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Re:Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practi... by nine_k on Saturday March 30, 2024 @09:36AM (#39874738)
Back when Opera was a worthy browser, around 2000, it had various bandwidth-saving and CPU-saving controls. In particular, it had buttons to prevent loading of large images, and IIRC for gif autoplay.
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Re:Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practi... by gevz on Saturday March 30, 2024 @10:07AM (#39875037)
Vivaldi is worthy successor and have those toggles built-in.
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Re:Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practi... by rjzzleep on Saturday March 30, 2024 @02:38PM (#39877449)
and with such a slow GUI that you couldn't run in on those low performance devices even with those toggles enabled...
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Re:Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practi... by EasyMark on Saturday March 30, 2024 @10:27PM (#39880797)
what? I use vivaldi on a nine year old desktop and its fine.
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